Infinite

​"Infinite".

Watched English movie "Infinite". 

This movie is directed by Antoine Fuqua. Screenplay by Ian Shorr. Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Cinematography by Mauro Fiore. Music by Harry Gregson-Williams . It features Mark Wahlberg, Sophie Cookson, Liz Carr, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Wallis Day, Dylan O’Brein, Johannes Haukur, Joana Ribero, Jason Mantzoukas, Kae Alexander, Toby Jones, Lili Rich. Film runs for about 1 hour and 47 minutes and was released in 2021. I watched it on Netflix with Aditi on 7th Oct 2023 .

Evan McCauley is diagnosed as a schizophrenic when he was a teenager. He sees dreams as if they were real and he loves it. He is arrested and two people try to take him away separately, Bathurst and Nora. The lady succeeds. She tells him that he is an Infinite. People who can remember all their births. There around 500 of them divided into two groups. Believers, the Good ones, and Nihilists, the bad ones. Evan is reincarnation of Treadway, who hid a potent weapon developed by Bathurst that will wipe the humanity in previous life before dying. Now everyone wants the egg.

Mark plays Evan. Sophie plays Nora. Both do decently. Chiwetel is better as Bathurst but the characterization makes him unconvincing.

This movie appears to be a mix of Matrix, Star Wars, Jason Bourne and what not. The story is very weak. Not enough thought in it. Or was it that one movie is too less for the story? If the Nihilists have perfected a method that can capture the souls on a chip, thus preventing rebirth, why Bathurst doesn’t use it on himself rather than trying to annihilate the world to prevent rebirth?

The chases are beautifully shot. The chase at the start is exhilarating. It heightens the expectations from the movie but the rest of the movie doesn’t live up to the expectation. 

Positives: Initial chase. 

Negatives: Rest of the movie. 

Not a must watch.